Truman's Aunt Farm - Hardcover

Rattigan, Jama Kim

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0395656613 ISBN 13: 9780395656617

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1994

Synopsis

Truman's request for an ant farm gets him an aunt farm, so he grows, trains, and sends to auntless kids in good homes a crop of tickling, storytelling, rollerskating aunts.

About this title

About the Author:

G. Brian Karas is the award-winning author and illustrator of many acclaimed picture books. He lives in New York. www.gbriankaras.com
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From School Library Journal:

PreSchool-Grade 2-It's a good pun, mistaking "aunt" for "ant," and one that tickles young ears. Aunt Fran sends Truman a coupon for an ant farm for his birthday, but when he tries to redeem it, he is sent more than 50 aunts instead- flattering aunts and funny aunts, aunts who bake and aunts who knit, gymnastic aunts and aunts who tickle-and they just keep coming. His first problem is what to feed them; his second, to find the right nieces and nephews for them. It's a major project, but he manages to make all the right matches and ends up with the one who has it all-Fran. This is a more playful book than Rattigan's Dumpling Soup (Little, 1993), and is served well by its art. Karas's amiable, pudgy cartoon characters have enlivened several beginning readers; his style is sharper here. Like the best cartoonists, he creates a multitude of expressions and stances with a minimum of line. The result is drawings that are both childlike and sophisticated. Using skewed proportion and perspective, he fills the pages with frantic activities that enhance and build upon the goofy appeal of the text.
Sally Margolis, Deerfield Public Library, IL
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0395656613
• ISBN 13: 9780395656617
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 32
• Illustrator: Karas G. Brian